NB: This Website uses "Xdvng", a dynamic
Devanâgarî font. In order to see it fully and automatically
display, any version of Netscape from 4.0 through 4.8 (not Opera or
Firefox and not version 6.x or 7.x of Netscape) may be used on a PC
(not on a Mac). Downloads of Netscape 4.8 and other earlier
versions of Netscape may be had by clicking here:
(http://sillydog.org/narchive/). (Thanks to Dr. Ghanshyam Sharma for this
tip.) Malhâr is also visible using IE on a PC, but the shape of the
aksharas is less elegant and IE often inserts unwanted space
between some glyphs or aksharas that belong together. At present most -
but not every - page of Malhâr has been provided with the code that
enables "Xdvng" to display in IE. Others, users of Macs and/or Opera or
Firefox, may also see the Devanâgarî font but only by first
downloading and installing it. Sources include jtrans.

Footnote 1: This page is a provisional index of links to other
pages which in turn are drafts of parts of a network of web-based
classroom-compatible materials for learning, teaching, and
exploring advanced (post second-year) levels of Hindi. The creation of
these materials has been supported by funds from the Mellon Foundation as
well as by a Visitorship (in 1999-2000) at the Institute for the Study of
Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at the Tokyo University of
Foreign Studies. Preparation for the project was materially assisted by a
Fulbright-Hays Research Abroad Award. It is my hope that interested
parties will have a look at these pages and let me have their ideas on how
I might improve their effectiveness, platform-stability, and
user-friendliness. I would also appreciate suggestions about what to
include (and what to omit).

E-mail messages can be sent to me
"@" umich.edu using my uniqname pehook Please send longer
messages with attachments to me "@" virginia.edu using the
uniqname peh6n

The Mellon Foundation has been funding the
development of web-based multimedia materials for elementary and
intermediate levels of Hindi-Urdu at the University of Michigan (Dr.
Tahsin Siddiqi) and the University of Chicago (Mr. Mithilesh Mishra).
Projects to create web-based multimedia materials for learning Hindi and
other South Asian languages are underway at the University of Pennsylvania
and at the Penn Language Center under the direction of Prof. Harold Schiffman,
Dr. Surendra Gambhir and Dr.
Vasu Renganathan. Sites for
Hindi and Urdu are under development at the University of Virginia by
Prof. Robert Hueckstedt,
at NC State by Prof. Afroz Taj, at Syracuse
University by Dr. Jishnu Shankar, at Australian
National University by Dr. Richard Barz, and in
Belgium by Hugo Coolens.
Another is being developed (for Japanese learners of Hindi) by Prof. K.
Machida of the
Institute for the Study of Asian and African Languages and Cultures at the
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.